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Title: American Big Game Fishing Author: Connett, Eugene V., ed. Place: New York Publisher: The Derrydale Press Date: [1935] Description: Illustrated with plates from drawings by Lynn Bogue Hunt and from photographs. 12½x9½, blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, jacket. No. 677 of 850 copies of the regular issue from a total edition of 906. First Edition. Chapters of fishing and fishing experiences by Ernest Hemingway, Van Campen Heilner, S. Kip Farrington, Lynn Bogue Hunt Francis Low, Charles Lehman and others. According to the jacket, "the most important book on its subject ever published. Its physical beauty is commensurate with its importance, making it the cornerstone of the big game fisherman's library." The jacket also states that the limitation is 950 copies, though the colophon states 850. Derrydale Bibliography notes that this is the first book published to cover all big game fishing on both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. Bookplate of Robert Patterson IV. Rare in jacket. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket with worn edges, 4" closed tear to front panel, front panel coming detached and closed tear across spine panel, cellotape repairs to flap folds (rather extensive on the lower flap fold with some apparent loss), two small light stains to front panel; volume with bottom corners just bumped, slightest rubbing to spine ends; overall, a fine, bright volume in the rare and largely intact jacket. Item number: 152872